Ray Cronin

Ray Cronin is a Nova Scotia-based writer and curator. Between 2011 and 2015 he worked at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia as both curator and director. He is the founding curator of the Sobey Art Award.
Cronin has written on visual arts for magazines and newspapers for over two decades and is presently the visual arts blogger for Halifax Magazine. He is also the author of Our Maud: The Art, Life and Legacy of Maud Lewis and the ebook Alex Colville: Art and Life.

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John Greer: Hard Thought
Ray Cronin

2019 / Canadian Art, Biography, Artists / $21.95
9781554471980 / Trade paper / 64 pp


A Gaspereau Field Guide to Canadian Artists: No. 4

When John Greer (b. 1944) started teaching sculpture at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in the 1970s, the college was fast becoming one of the incubators of the emerging international Conceptual Art movement. From his early experiments in conceptual sculpture, Greer’s artistic practice shifted to re-engage with traditional sculptural forms and techniques, re-imagining them in a way that would make him a pivotal figure in contemporary sculpture in Canada. In his essay, Ray Cronin recounts the arc of Greer’s career, demonstrating how Greer’s work refreshes and extends our understanding of the language of sculpture and the way in which thought might be made manifest in material.



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Other Books by this Author

Alan Syliboy: Culture is Our Medicine
Ray Cronin

2022 / Canadian Art, Biography, Artists / $22.95 CAN
9781554472468 / Trade paper / 64 pp
Colleen Wolstenholme: Complications
Ray Cronin

2021 / Canadian Art, Biography, Artists / $21.95 CAN
9781554472147 / Trade paper / 64 pp
Maud Lewis: Creating an Icon
Ray Cronin

2020 / Canadian Art, Biography Artists / $21.95 CAN
9781554472062 / Trade paper / 64 pp
Alex Colville: A Rebellious Mind
Ray Cronin

2019 / Canadian Art, Biography, Artists / $21.95 CAN
9781554471881 / Trade paper / 64 pp
Gerald Ferguson: Thinking of Painting
Ray Cronin

2018 / Canadian Art, Biography, Artists / $21.95 CAN
9781554471874 / Trade paper / 64 pp
Mary Pratt: Still Light
Ray Cronin

2018 / Canadian Art Biography, Artists / $21.95 CAN
9781554471805 / Trade paper / 64 pp

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